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Why You Should Never Rely on Social Media

posted by mrpg on Sunday April 29 2018, @03:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the all-my-life-is-in-my-flash-drive dept.

canopic jug writes:

Steven Saus has written a blog post about why you should never rely on social media. In his latest post on the topic he points out that:

[...] If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.

[...] I now know, in my gut, how fragile my access to the services Google, Facebook, and Twitter supply are.

Because – and I cannot stress this enough – my ban from G+ was due to something I supposedly posted to G+ when I was unable to post to G+. Hell, I still don’t know what got me in trouble in the first place.

Regardless, my trust is broken, and my role as product has been made painfully clear.

G+ is used as the example, but the same principles apply to the other social control media.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gaaark on Sunday April 29 2018, @04:46PM (7 children)

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday April 29 2018, @04:46PM (#673427) Journal

    so i need SoylentPersonalWebSite/SuiteServer?

    I don't want to be held hostage: will Buzz cut our Runaway and Eth? I. DON'T. KNOW?
    Supposeably he says he won't, but maybe he'll change his mind? Maybe?

    Should i abandon Soylent?
    Dog help me! I am clueless....i donno wat to do!

    I needs social media friends to tell me EVERYTHING! Help me ObiNews: you're my only hope!

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday April 29 2018, @06:57PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday April 29 2018, @06:57PM (#673454) Journal

    Remember, Gaaark, remember the Prisoner of SoylentNews! Tormented by dementors, shadowbanned by Buzzards, lectured to by JR, he suffers for you, Gaaark! For you!

  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:06PM (4 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:06PM (#673458) Homepage

    One of my good buddies, like me, gave up on social media for years because he thought it was bullshit.

    But then he got back on, for one reason. To troll. He used to read my trolls on Slashdot and wonder why I did it, what kind of fun and thrills I got from it. Then he tried it himself, became a convert, and never looked back.

    " Cats do love to play as snakes. "

    -- Big Boss, MGS4

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:15PM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:15PM (#673462)

      in the old days, one used to troll rather gifted people stuck in tunnel vision, or in a "misunderstanding" about some issue, maybe even being wrong on the particular issue...

      nowdays, i find the topics not being compatible with me...
      sure, there is a limited satisfaction in trolling retards about jews and feminists, but wtf...

      dunno... time to move on...

      -zugedneb

      • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:39PM (2 children)

        by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Sunday April 29 2018, @07:39PM (#673467) Homepage

        Trolls, like Deadheads, never die. They just mellow with age.

        • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @12:43AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @12:43AM (#673537)

          They do get more stupid as they get older. And gayer.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @06:41AM

          by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 30 2018, @06:41AM (#673617)

          You've got issues and should do some thinking on why you enjoy trolling so much. Convert? Why such language?

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by hendrikboom on Monday April 30 2018, @03:34PM

    by hendrikboom (1125) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 30 2018, @03:34PM (#673772) Homepage Journal

    If you're not paying for the service, you're the product, not the customer.

    Fortunately, it's easy to convert from a product to a customer at Soylent News.